Thursday, November 12, 2015

Travelling Seeds

In Travelling** Seeds, the third book in
the Mummy Nature Series, readers will follow the
precious and precocious narrator as she observes and explains the path of a
pear seed, starting with the pear hanging on a tree. Readers may be surprised
by what happens to the pear seed, and its likely there will be a few giggles
and wrinkled noses at the mention and illustrations of poop in the process.

The rhyming format
mostly works well, though sometimes it flows better than others. The vocabulary
is simple, but there is some random punctuation (likely to keep the rhyme
flow) and some random capitalization. There is more white space on pages than
in the prior book, Bees Like Flowers, but
the bright, beautiful illustrations will keep readers engaged and smiling.

As with the prior
books in the series, author Rebecca Bielawksi includes a supplemental section
at the end and in this book, it tells of a few other ways that seeds travel. The
book will work with very young children as a read-aloud or read along, but the
book may be a little text heavy in the second half for newly independent
readers to read alone.

Thank you to author
for providing me an eBook copy in exchange for my honest review -- the only
kind I give.

**UK spelling

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Once upon a time in England there was a
Kiwi girl. She was unsatisfied with her job peeling onions at a factory in
Norfolk and yearned for a better life were she could harness her untapped
artistic potential and unleash all her pent up rhymes. One day when she
realized she had no tears left to cry for the onions she packed up and moved to
Spain, fell in love with a handsome Systems Administrator, had two kids, became
a children's author and lived happily ever after.